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Gurren Lagann! Spin on!
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Girl with rifle to the rescue
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Gattai!
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Hissatsu...
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Spider-man, Spider-man...
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Okay, so if you're comparing two things, you have to use the comparative, e.g. "Comparing the red car and the blue car, the red car is faster," and you can't say "the red car is fastest."
If you're comparing three or more things, however, you use the superlative, e.g. "Comparing the red, yellow, and blue cars, the red car is fastest," and you can't say "the red car is faster."
What if, however, you've got three things, but you talk about two of them compared to the third? As in, "Comparing
Snake.
Some random space shooter thing.
All programmed in Pascal, so they're just functional, pretty much. Rather basic, once you get the logic of the way those programs work. Bullets were tricky, as were monsters... but I figured it out.
Snake was loads of fun to write and test Once I figured it out it was easy, and I just had to tweak it. Shooter is kinda lameish, longer than snake actually, but mostly because snake was written later. Just practice, of course.
Oh and since someone
It is quite awesome.
Very nice to have a clean slate that I haven't screwed up with loads of downloaded @&*^!! While the OS was setting up, I compiled a list of the programs I really use, various utilities like 7-zip and TeraCopy, etc. got all that stuff installed and now it's basically usable.
Speaking of which, stick with Vista vs. upgrade to Windows 7, pros/cons of each? Anyone more tech-savvy with some suggestions?
Oh yeah, just for a change, I installed OpenOffice instead of MS
Needless to say I disagree, for a variety of reasons, but seeing as it comes from the administration I get the strangest feeling it's not going to change anyway.
Just in general, I've always been irritated by how people who aren't doing anything wrong are forced to accommodate the loud, closed-minded complainers and proselytizers who can't mind their own business or accept that others can think differently from themselves. Rules against foul language and mature content I can understand, but h
10:30 PM - Started watching Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei ep 02, subbed by gg. Realized that the .mkv file was not HD quality.
10:31 PM - Ripped the subtitle script using an .mkv extraction utility. Started watching the episode using an HD raw with the script file.
10:36 PM - Realized that the subtitles were off sync with the raw video I was using by a few fractions of a second.
10:37 PM - Ran the script through a Java app that I'd written a while ago to make minor corrections to subtitl
Thankfully I've gotten rid of most of the annoying things (like asking for permission for EVERYTHING. "Did you copy this file?" "Did you start this installation?" YES I DID DARNIT) but there's this one thing the source of which I simply haven't a clue... these noises.
For one thing, Vista is significantly noisier than XP. Either that or the noises are just more obtrusive, instead of the very functional, to-the-point digital beeps and clicks of normal XP usage... Vista seems to have replaced t
And yes, there's going to be somebody standing there. I've actually gotten further along on that part... I just hid the layers. =)
Eh, it's probably pushing it, but I did try to imitate the patterns on Bionicle parts, and the wall and the floor do "fit together" if you look at the connection.
EDIT: And this is why we read! Yeah, off to do some modifications since I think that's stretching it way too much as far as custom goes. Wall sucked anyway. Might be able to get away with the floor an
Can't link it here since it's a blog and will occasionally, casually use strong language... but I recently found something that's hilarious and relevant to my interests.
I'm sure everyone here knows about Engrish. Basically, people in other countries, usually Japan and China, botch English in horrible ways. Well, one ethnically Chinese blogger decided to turn the tables on that and point out the many stupid ways Westerners use East Asian languages. The blog has actually been going since 2004
I've never seen someone blush on the back of their head before.
Mou chotto dake!
On a completely different note.
Is there anything these cell phones can't do? O_O
So my current monitor is a... what was it? 17" LCD, 1280x1024. I'm quite satisfied with it. I like it. It's a nice monitor. I figured this was going to be the monitor I'd be taking with me to college.
My dad figured otherwise. So before I even knew it, today sitting at the bottom of the stairs is a 21.5" widescreen LCD, 1920x1080.
... I mean, wow, that's awesome, but I kinda feel bad about him spending all that money on me. o__o
Whether the line between them is fine or not, there is no doubt that these two girls were way over it.
So the other day, after yet another five-hour night, I also happened to be somewhat sick with a cough. So while usually I'd be awake by the afternoon, this time I got on the bus, plopped my backpack on the seat, tossed my jacket on my backpack, flopped down on top of both of them, and started to doze.
Now. WHY did these two feel the need to question me about my sleep habits WHEN I OBVIOUS
WHAT IF... there was a fence going around the Equator? Who would be inside the fence, and who would be outside the fence?
Or better. Let's say there's an imaginary planet with this fence around its Equator, and the fence is built so that it lies PERFECTLY on one plane, right on the middle line of that planet, with EXACTLY the same amount of atoms on both the North and the South sides of that plane. The north pole is EXACTLY as far from the fence as the south pole is. The North population is e
They're coming out tomorrow morning.
I'm gonna be on all sorts of painkillers for the rest of tomorrow and over the weekend! I should probably marathon Lain while I'm still pumped full of drugs. It'd probably make more sense.
Anyway. Yaaaay surgery.
Ceci n'est pas une self-referencing sentence. Ceci n'est pas une two-sentence paragraph.
Ceci n'est pas une allusion to "The Treachery of Images" by René Magritte.
Ceci n'est pas Sparta.
(ceci n'est pas une signoff)
Some things I just find kinda odd, some things I find really annoying.
For one thing, I've never seen the "this program was brought to you by the following sponsors" message subtitled before until now. Very odd, considering... you know, it's not really part of the show.
I've also never seen the "when watching [show], please brighten the room and watch at a distance from the TV" blurb subtitled before this, ever. I mean, when it's got an actual lil' animated scene to go with it, like in Hay
Posted here so as not to clutter up the topic. Author's notes after the jump.
Final Author’s Notes
You really don’t have to read this. This is just my rambling and random facts about the writing of this story.
To start off: I don’t believe I finished that.
This is not like finishing a short story or a drawing or something, this was huge. How huge? In case anyone wants some statistics, as of this writing (I might do a couple more revisions) the story proper, minus my notes, stands a
As stubborn and frequently unable to handle certain ideas that friend of mine is, he does ask some good questions.
Today he mentioned that he'd heard that in either Chinese or Japanese, the past was referred to as "forward" and the future as "backwards," while the opposite is true in English. At first I was all, "What are you talking about?" but then I though about it for a second, and I realized, hey, technically he's right, that's true for both languages, although when used in context of ti
Kinda occurred to me today one of the shifts in the tone of classic and modern sci fi... of course it's not a catchall rule, but the sort of "in general" feel of it...
In essence, it seems to me that classic sci fi offers a more utopian view of the future, whereas more modern sci fi offers a more dystopian view of the future.
Like I said, by no means completely generalizable. I mean, you've got the classics of dystopian literature in 1984 and Brave New World and whatnot. But a lot of the s
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See previous entry. More after the jump.
No Matarou, because technically she's modest but I'm not gonna push BZP's rules (at least the artist was accurate).
Didn't make these; I do take issue with the Chiri one since that's impossible. No I'm not uploading all the full res individual ones.
And a bunch I couldn't be bothered to resize to 600 px wide or less.
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/zero0zero/S.
I wonder why they're called "loanwords."
It's not like the language plans to give the word back once it's done with it, is it?
Blatant advertising line.
TAKE THE FREAKIN' BRIBE ACHILLEUS.
Like seriously, what was up with those Ancient Greeks?
So I'm on Book 9 of the Iliad, and I get to the part where Agamemnon spends something like fifty lines listing all the stuff he'll give Achilleus if the latter will be persuaded to rejoin the battle. And I'm like, "Holy geez, that's a lot of stuff. Like, a seriously huge amount of stuff."
And obviously Achilleus refuses.
WHAT THE HECK.
In other news, I'm up to episode 8 of Lain. Every time
Ow!
Okay so I'm currently waiting for the painkiller to kick in and trying to ignore the sharp throbbing in my left upper gum.
I think I'll go watch random Vocaloid vids off Nico to distract myself...
The disappointing thing is the painkiller isn't having any funky mind-altering effects. :< That might partially make up for the whole experience, but noooo I don't even feel drowsy.
